From 82d38144de094e06d7b2ddda541e9ff6b2d82ada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ajay Brahmakshatriya <ajaybr@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:11:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added lib target to make and separate named targets for
 samples

---
 make/buildit_rules.mk | 10 ++++++++--
 make/dirs.mk          |  1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/make/buildit_rules.mk b/make/buildit_rules.mk
index 9e71bf6..1665f93 100644
--- a/make/buildit_rules.mk
+++ b/make/buildit_rules.mk
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Actual rules for building the library and the executables
-.SECONDARY: $(BUILD_DIR)/%.o 
-.SECONDARY: $(BUILD_DIR)/samples/%.o 
+.PRECIOUS: $(BUILD_DIR)/%.o 
+.PRECIOUS: $(BUILD_DIR)/samples/%.o 
 
 $(BUILD_DIR)/gen_headers/gen/compiler_headers.h:
 	@mkdir -p $(@D)
@@ -27,9 +27,15 @@ $(BUILD_DIR)/sample%: $(BUILD_DIR)/samples/sample%.o $(LIBRARY) $(DEPS_LIST)
 	@mkdir -p $(@D)
 	$(CXXLDV) -o $@ $< $(LINKER_FLAGS)
 
+
+# Extra rules to simply compile the samples by name
+$(SAMPLE_NAMES): sample%: $(BUILD_DIR)/sample%
+
 .PHONY: executables
 executables: $(SAMPLES)
 
+.PHONY: lib
+lib: $(LIBRARY)
 
 -include $(LIBRARY_OBJS:.o=.d)
 -include $(SAMPLE_OBJS:.o=.d)
diff --git a/make/dirs.mk b/make/dirs.mk
index d90641b..b263488 100644
--- a/make/dirs.mk
+++ b/make/dirs.mk
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ SAMPLES_DIR=$(BASE_DIR)/samples
 DEPS_DIR=$(BASE_DIR)/deps
 SAMPLES_SRCS=$(wildcard $(SAMPLES_DIR)/*.cpp)
 SAMPLES=$(subst $(SAMPLES_DIR),$(BUILD_DIR),$(SAMPLES_SRCS:.cpp=))
+SAMPLE_NAMES=$(subst $(SAMPLES_DIR)/,,$(SAMPLES_SRCS:.cpp=))
 
 GEN_INCLUDES=$(BUILD_DIR)/gen_headers/gen/compiler_headers.h
 INCLUDES=$(wildcard $(INCLUDE_DIR)/*.h) $(wildcard $(INCLUDE_DIR)/*/*.h) $(GEN_INCLUDES)